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Kitaev magnets have emerged as pivotal systems for investigating frustrated magnetism, providing a unique platform to explore quantum phases governed by the interplay between bond-dependent anisotropy and external magnetic fields. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Shuai Liu , Hao Wu , Jinbin Li , Xiaoqun Wang , Qiang Luo

The one-dimensional spin-1/2 $XXZ$ model in a mixed transverse and longitudinal magnetic field is studied. Using the specially developed version of the mean-field approximation the order-disorder transition induced by the magnetic field is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 D. V. Dmitriev , V. Ya. Krivnov

The Kitaev-type spin chains have been demonstrated to be fertile playgrounds in which exotic phases and unconventional phase transitions are ready to appear. In this work, we use the density-matrix renormalization group method to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-27 Qiang Luo , Shijie Hu , Jinbin Li , Jize Zhao , Hae-Young Kee , Xiaoqun Wang

Recent scattering experiments in the 3D Kitaev magnet $\beta$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$ have shown that a relatively weak magnetic field along the crystallographic ${\bf b}$-axis drives the system from its incommensurate counter-rotating order to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Natalia B. Perkins

While the existence of a magnetic field induced quantum spin liquid in Kitaev magnets remains under debate, its topological properties often extend to proximal phases where they can lead to unusual behaviors of both fundamental and applied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-21 Li Ern Chern , Claudio Castelnovo

The 3$d^7$ Co$^{2+}$-based insulating magnet \NCTO{} has recently been reported to have strong Kitaev interactions on a honeycomb lattice, and is thus being considered as a Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate. However, due to the existence…

Magnetic phase diagram of a spatially anisotropic, frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a stacked square lattice is investigated using second-order spin-wave expansion. The effects of interlayer coupling and the spatial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-10 Kingshuk Majumdar

We study the ground state properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model in a magnetic field and explore the evolution of spin correlations in the presence of non-magnetic vacancies. By means of exact diagonalizations, the phase diagram without…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabien Trousselet , Giniyat Khaliullin , Peter Horsch

Topological spin liquids in two spatial dimensions are stable phases in the presence of a small magnetic field, but may give way to field-induced phenomena at intermediate field strengths. Sandwiched between the low-field spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 Ciarán Hickey , Matthias Gohlke , Christoph Berke , Simon Trebst

We combine tensor-network approaches and high-order linked-cluster expansions to investigate the quantum phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev's honeycomb model in a magnetic field for general spin values. For the pure Kitaev model,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Max Hörmann , Patrick Adelhardt , Sebastian Fey , Hooman Karamnejad , Roman Orus , Kai Phillip Schmidt

We examine the influence of weak anisotropic interactions on the T=0 phase diagram of the frustrated two-leg Heisenberg ladder, a well-studied spin model exhibiting integer and fractional magnetization plateaux separated by gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-18 Karlo Penc , Jean-Baptiste Fouet , Shin Miyahara , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Frederic Mila

Honeycomb iridates are thought to have strongly spin-anisotropic exchange interactions that could lead to an extraordinary state of matter known as the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. The realization of this state requires almost perfectly…

In the effective Ising spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain system BaCo$_2$V$_2$O$_8, the magnetic-field influence is highly anisotropic. For magnetic fields along the easy axis $c$, the N\'{e}el order is strongly suppressed already for low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 S. K. Niesen , G. Kolland , M. Seher , O. Breunig , M. Valldor , M. Braden , B. Grenier , T. Lorenz

We study the Kitaev-Ising model, where ferromagnetic Ising interactions are added to the Kitaev model on a lattice. This model has two phases which are characterized by topological and ferromagnetic order. Transitions between these two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-27 Vahid Karimipour , Laleh Memarzadeh , Parisa Zarkeshian

We systematically investigate the effects of Kitaev interaction on magnetic orders and anisotropy in both triangular and honeycomb lattices. Our study highlights the critical role of the Kitaev interaction in modulating phase boundaries and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-07 Lianchuang Li , Binhua Zhang , Zefeng Chen , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

In $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, an external magnetic field applied within the honeycomb plane can induce a transition from a magnetically ordered state to a disordered state that is potentially related to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. In zero…

We report a combined analytical and density matrix renormalized group study of the antiferromagnetic XXZ spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain subject to a uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction and a transverse magnetic field. The numerically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-04 Yang-Hao Chan , Wen Jin , Hong-Chen Jiang , Oleg A. Starykh

Motivated by the recent experimental observation of a Mott insulating state for the layered Iridate Na2IrO3, we discuss possible ordering states of the effective Iridium moments in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Hong-Chen Jiang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Simon Trebst

The layered honeycomb iridate $\alpha$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$ displays an incommensurate magnetic structure with counterrotating moments on nearest-neighbor sites, proposed to be stabilized by strongly-frustrated anisotropic Kitaev interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Sungkyun Choi , S. Manni , J. Singleton , C. V. Topping , T. Lancaster , S. J. Blundell , D. T. Adroja , V. Zapf , P. Gegenwart , R. Coldea

Recently there has been a renewed interest in properties of the higher-spin Kitaev models, especially their low-dimensional analogues with additional interactions. These quasi-1D systems exhibit rich phase diagrams with symmetry-protected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Jacob S. Gordon , Hae-Young Kee